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Advanced Distributed System Design Course - Udi Dahan

Notes by Craig Phillips

Fallacies of Distributed Computing

• There are 11 fallacies of Distributed Computing:
  1. The network is reliable
  2. Latency isn’t a problem
  3. Bandwidth isn’t a problem
  4. The network is secure

5. The topology won’t change

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System Design Cheatsheet

Picking the right architecture = Picking the right battles + Managing trade-offs

Basic Steps

1. Clarify and agree on the scope of the system

• User cases (description of sequences of events that, taken together, lead to a system doing something useful)
  • Who is going to use it?
  • How are they going to use it?